The Best Products of 2015

Our analysts and editors tested and rated more than 2,500 products and services in the PC Labs this year. This list of the cream of the crop for the past 12 months also doubles as the ultimate technology shopping list.

It's a record year for PCMag.com—we've tested and rated more than 2,500 products in the last 12 months. Sure, there were some real clunkers in there, but a lot of those products are excellent specimens of technology. Now comes the hard part. We had to narrow down the top performers to a list of categories, and then within that category, pick the best product. It's a lot more difficult than it seems. Even our own Editors' Choice award can't be the final arbiter, because, sometimes, multiple products can lead a category.

But as in years previous, we repeated the mantra, "There can only be one!" Friendly debates threatened to degenerate to fisticuffs in PC Labs as the merits of various contenders were hashed out, all in the service of narrowing the choice to the ultimate pick in a given category. Finally, bloodied but unbroken, our analysts and editors emerged from the room in which they'd been locked with a list. And that's what we present to you today: the very best products we reviewed in the past 12 months.

The list this year includes 100 products or services in 19 categories, with 88 of them winning our coveted Editors' Choice award. To be included, the product had to be reviewed between November 1, 2014 and, well, today. The ratings on most of the products are 4 or 4.5 stars, but seven of our picks received 5-star ratings—that's the highest score we give, reserved for the items we consider just about perfect. Read on to see if your holiday wish list matches up with our choices. We guarantee you'll find some top-notch gift ideas.

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